Remembering Tomorrow - Sheet Music for Partitur Carson P. Cooman

This is the full score only. The parts are available on rental from the publisher.Instrumentation2 FlutesOboeClarinet in BbBassoonHorn in FTrumpet in BbPercussion (1 player: tubular bells, vibraphone)Timpani (2 drums)Solo TromboneStrings(suggested minimum of 4.4.3.3.2)Remembering Tomorrow: Trombone Concerto (2004) was commissioned by and is dedicated totrombonist Haim Avitsur. Throughout the work, the trombone is placed into a variety of differentmusical contexts—sometimes with bleakness and sometimes with warmth.The work begins with the tubular bells alone, presenting the principal musical material of the work.The strings enter with a suspended tapestry, through which the trombone plays its openingmelodies. In this section, the trombone has a cantorial role—singing and interacting with theorchestra.These opening musical ideas are developed as the trumpet, horn, and clarinet join the trombone insoloistic roles. A signal gesture on the trumpet is heard once, interrupting the tapestry. When thesignal is heard again, the music accelerates into the second section.The second section is fast and bell-like as the trombone sings excited lines through ringing masses ofsound. Whirring figurations emerge in the winds and are picked up by the strings. The sectiongrows wilder until it climaxes in hammer chords.From this, the trumpet, bells, and trombone emerge—maintaining and propelling the energy of thesection. Gradually, the energy is released, leading into the third section.The third section is chorale-like, combining again suspended sounds in the strings with harmonicmotion in the winds in brass. The trombone again plays a cantorial role.A build up of energy occurs at the end of this section, leading into the fourth and final section—thecadenza. The trombone bursts into the cadenza, not with a forceful shout, but with a whisper. Thework winds down to its conclusion—without a loss of speed or energy, but rather by the increase ofsilence.